When you express your ideas, opinions or guesses, first you say what you think, then you say TO OMOIMASU (I think that, more literally, That is what I think). OMOIMASU is a verb that means (to ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How should we teach grammar to students? Our students need to learn grammar, but the real question is how to teach it in ways that don’t bore them out of their minds.

To change verbs into nouns, you add NO or KOTO to the plain forms of verbs, such as the dictionary form or the TA-form. Let me explain this, using the sentence in the skit that means "To be a Japanese ...